Kum Ba Yah

Someone's sleeping, Lord, kum bah yah . . .Someone's crying, Lord . . .Someone's singing, Lord . . .Someone's laughing, Lord . . .Someone's praying, Lord . . .Someone's Scouting, Lord . . .Someone's camping, Lord . . .Kum ba yah, my Lord, . . .This well known song has an
unusual African collection. Kum Ba Yah probably
means "Come by here" in an African-American creole dialect called Gullah
from South Carolina in the USA. Missionaries probably took the song to
Africa in the 1930's, where it was later "rediscovered" in Angola in the
1950's, leading some to believe that the song had its origins in
Angola. It became a popular peace song in the 1960s. It's been popular - and, let's be honest, a bit of a cliche - ever since.